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Using Databases to Identify Companies
- CB Insights This link opens in a new window
PE, VC, and angel investment database that tracks startups, their investors, and trends and research for the industries they compete in. Offers Expert Collections, analyst-curated lists that highlight the companies you need to know in the most important technology spaces, such as Health Tech, AI, Aerospace & Space Tech, Fintech, Renewable Energy, and many more.
NOTE: You must use GlobalProtect VPN to access the database if you are connecting from off-campus.
- Create your own account using your Kellogg email address. SSO is not available for this resource.
- Please note that CB Insights accounts must be renewed after one year. If your account expires, please email CB Insights directly at university@cbinsights.com
- CB Insights Use Agreement: CB Insights is for academic and career research purposes only.
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database overview
- PitchBook This link opens in a new window
PitchBook tracks startups, public and private equity markets, including venture capital, private equity, real estate, and M&A. Includes contact information. See the Research Center under Library on the left menu for private company, industry, and technology research reports from PitchBook's analysts.
NOTE: You must use GlobalProtect VPN to access the database if you are connecting from off-campus.
- Create an account using your Kellogg email address. SSO not available for this resource.
- Please note that PitchBook accounts expire annually in June. Go through the steps to create your account again using your Kellogg email address and your account will be restored.
- PitchBook Use Agreement: A User may only use PitchBook internally for academic, educational, and scholarly use, must limit that use to what is allowed under this Agreement, and may not permit anyone else (including, without limitation, other employees, students or faculty of Subscriber) to use their user name or password to access/use the Site or any Services.
PitchBook FAQs and Glossary
Watch a brief on how to find alumni
Watch a brief on how to build a target list of private equity or venture capital firms
Watch a brief on how to build a target list of startups
- GuideStar This link opens in a new window
GuideStar is the world's largest source of information on nonprofit organizations. - ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer This link opens in a new window
Access over 14 million tax filing documents from tax-exempt organizations going back as far as 2001, and see financial details such as their executive compensation, revenue, and expenses. Search by keyword, organization name, category, city/state, and organization type.
Target List Resources by Sector
- Duke Fuqua EDGE: Sustainable Business Job Search ResourcesEDGE Managing Director Katie Kross has compiled a slide deck of resources for students and job seekers. The deck includes example career paths, job search strategies, and recommended books, job boards, and industry news sources.
- JUST Capital: Annual Overall RankingsRanking America’s largest publicly traded companies on the issues that matter most to the American public in defining just business behavior today.
- Innov8social's Tools30+ lists of tools and resources on social entrepreneurship and social innovation
- ImpactSpace This link opens in a new window
ImpactSpace is an open database for the impact investing market and tracks investments in solutions to environmental and social challenges. Discover companies and investors that are generating real impact and real returns.
- Clean, Renewable and Environmental Opportunities (CREO)Gathers thought leaders to create solutions and ignite relationships that foster needed work and funding around environmental concerns.
- ImpactAssets 50 This link opens in a new windowFree annually updated database of impact investment fund managers. The IA 50 offers an easy way to identify experienced and emerging impact fund managers and is intended to illustrate the breadth of impact fund managers operating today, though it is not a comprehensive list. Fund managers selected to the IA 50 demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes.
- Invest with ValuesHighlights topics, resources, and organizations related to creating positive social and environmental impacts through money, business, and investing
Recommended Firms & Organizations
- Impact EngineInvestment advisor building and managing VC and PE portfolios that drive positive impact in economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health equity.
- Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new window
Access to several directories, including Brands and Their Companies, Business Rankings Annual, Consultants & Consulting Organizations Directory, Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Market Share Reporter, and Major Companies of the Arab World
- EndeavorGlobal nonprofit that pioneered the concept of High-Impact Entrepreneurship in emerging markets by practicing a tested “mentor capitalist” model.
Foundations
Other Resources
International Development Consulting Firms
Check out our Domestic and International Lists of International Development Consulting Firms listed under our Consulting Guide.
- One Billion ResilientReaching one billion people with resilience solutions to climate change, migration, and security by 2030.
- Chronicle of Philanthropy
Serves leaders, fundraisers, grant makers, and others involved in the philanthropic enterprise. Offers a robust advice section to help nonprofit workers do their jobs as well as one of the biggest listings of career opportunities.
- GuideStar This link opens in a new windowGuideStar is the world's largest source of information on nonprofit organizations.
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer This link opens in a new windowAccess over 14 million tax filing documents from tax-exempt organizations going back as far as 2001, and see financial details such as their executive compensation, revenue, and expenses. Search by keyword, organization name, category, city/state, and organization type.
- Capital Research CenterEstablished to study nonprofit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism
Social Impact Company Rankings
- Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index: Equality 100Top-rated CEI employers come from nearly every industry and region of the United States. To earn top ratings, these employers took concrete steps to establish and implement comprehensive policies, benefits and practices that ensure greater equity for LGBTQ+ workers and their families.
- JUST Capital: Annual Overall RankingsRanking America’s largest publicly traded companies on the issues that matter most to the American public in defining just business behavior today.
- Sustainalytics: Top-Rated ESG Companies ListSustainalytics' list of companies that received top ESG Risk Rating scores.